From 2002-2011, I wrote essays on life and sent them out via email every Monday morning. Feeling burnt out, I stopped. But they called to me, so I sorted through and put together a book of the ones I liked the most that focused on family. This book was published last month, and now, with feedback from readers and listening to my heart on these long winter nights, I am ready to start again. This time it will be a blog, and who knows what all technology I will incorporate.

In some ways, it is normal for me to be sitting down to write as Barb Unwired. It feels good to be doing it again. In other ways, it is scary. Will I be able to tackle the change to a blog? Will I like the new readers I attract? Will I attract any new readers at all?

Then I remember Mother Teresa’s words. We only have today. Let us begin.

And so I shall.